34 FILICES. | Dryopteris. 
N.Z. Ferns (1882) 82; Feld N.Z. Ferns (1890) 131, t. 5, £. 7; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 1002. N. pentangularum Col. on Tasm. Journ. Nat. 
Scr. u (1846) 169. Aspidium decompositum Spreng. Syst. 1v (1827) 109 ; 
Benth. Fl. Austral. vii (1878) 758. 
KERMADEC IsLANDS, North AND SoutH IsLaAnps, CHATHAM ISLANDS: Not 
uncommon in lowland districts, usually in rich alluvial soils. Sea-level to 1200 ft. 
An abundant Australian plant, ranging from the north of Queensland to Tasmania, 
also in Norfolk Island. 
3. D. glabella C. Christen. Ind. Fil. (1905) 267.—Rhizome short, stout, 
tufted, clothed with the bases of the old stipites intermixed with subulate 
scales. Stipes 4-10in. long, slender, firm, scaly at the base, glabrous or 
nearly so above. Fronds tufted at the top of the rhizome, 6-14 in. long or 
more without the stipes, 4-10in. broad, ovate-deltoid, acuminate, mem- 
branous but firm, dark-green, 2-3-pinnate ; surfaces almost glabrous except 
the rhachis and costae, which are more or less clothed with short reddish © 
pubescence. Primary pinnae 2-5in. long; the lowest pair the largest, 
deltoid, not so unequal-sided as in N. decompositum, and the basal second- 
ary pinnae not conspicuously longer than the rest ; upper pinnae lanceolate, 
acuminate ; secondary rhachises margined throughout. Secondary pinnae 
obliquely ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, deeply pinnatifid or the lower again 
pinnate; ultimate segments ovate or oblong, sharply toothed or lobed. 
Sori distant, about half-way between the margin and the midrib. Indusium 
pale, orbicular-reniform.—Nephrodium glabellum A. Cunn. Precur. (1836) 
n. 224; Raoul Choiz (1846) 38; ZT. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. x (1878) 
398 ; Thoms. N.Z. Ferns (1882) 82; Field N.Z. Ferns (1890) 131, t. 6, £. 33. 
Cheesem. Man.. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 1003. N. decompositum var. pubescens 
Hook. jf. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1855) 39. N. decompositum var. microphyllum 
Hook. Sp. Fil. iv (1862) 146. N. decompositum var. glabellum Hook. and 
Bak. Syn. Fil. (1873) 281. 
KERMADEC IsLanDs, NortTH AND SoutTH Istanps: In dry woods from the North 
Cape to Foveaux Strait, not uncommon. Sea-level to 1500 ft. 
Also in Australia and several of the Polynesian islands. Closely allied to D. 
decomposita, but sufficiently distinct in the short (not creeping) rhizome, the nearly 
glabrous stipes, the smaller dark-green and glossy tufted fronds, with a narrower out- 
eo and with the surfaces glabrous except a reddish pubescence on the rhachis and 
costae. ‘ 
f : 
4, D. velutina O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. Pl. 11 (1891) 814..-Rhizome short, 
stout, erect. Stipes 9-18in. long, firm, erect, densely villose-pubescent 
above, clothed at the base with large red-brown subulate scales. Fronds 
tufted at the top of the rhizome, 9-18 in. long, almost the same in breadth, 
broadly deltoid or pentangular, acuminate, reddish-brown, soft and mem- 
branous, clothed on both surfaces with copious short silky hairs, 2-3-pinnate 
or in large specimens 4-pinnate at the base ; rhachises densely silky. Lower 
primary pinnae much the largest, 6-12 in. long, deltoid, the lowest second- 
ary pinna much longer than the rest and deflexed ; upper pinnae gradually 
smaller, oblong-deltoid to lanceolate-deltoid, acuminate. Secondary pinnae 
close, numerous, lanceolate, deeply pinnatifid or again pinnate. Pinnules 
oblong-ovate or oblong, obtuse, deeply obtusely lobed or pinnatifid. Sori 
rather small, copious; indusium pubescent, often glandular—Nephrodium 
velutinum Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii (1855) 39, t. 80; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 
378 ; Hook. Sp. Fil. iii (1860) 145; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Fil. (1873) 281: 
